Freespire

Freespire was once a community-run Linux distribution sponsored by Linspire. Freespire was discontinued in 2008. Starting in 2017 Freespire became a free operating system based on Ubuntu and run by PC/OpenSystems LLC. Freespire features the Xfce desktop environment.

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Notes: In case where multiple versions of a package are shipped with a distribution, only the default version appears in the table. For indication about the GNOME version, please check the "nautilus" and "gnome-shell" packages. The Apache web server is listed as "httpd" and the Linux kernel is listed as "linux". The KDE desktop is represented by the "kdelibs" and "plasma-desktop" packages and the Xfce desktop by the "xfdesktop" package.

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Version: 3.0.6.5Rating: 9Date: 2018-03-04Votes: 0

Not a bad little distro here. User friendly, easy on the eyes and easy to navigate. They seem to be improving it as time goes on which is a good thing. Not a huge XFCE fan but it looks more like KDE to me when I first set it up. Recommendations I would make to the guys is move back to a Debian base. Setting up from an Ubuntu base is kinda moot as we have too many Ubuntu derivatives.

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Version: 3.0.6.5Rating: 10Date: 2018-02-17Votes: 2

This is a very good distro. Easy to use, easy to setup. I used Lindows back in the day (still have my original install CD's) and I do like this one better.

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Version: 3Rating: 7Date: 2018-02-08Votes: 4

Very good looking desktop,icons and themes are vibrant, good application line-up, very fast and easy to use. Some cons: support website could use a lot more content, wallpaper is way to dark, on my Acer Cloudbook 14 getting UEFI to work was a bear had to go into the BIOS and choose a "boot key"